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1 | Did God create evil? | 3 John 1:11 | FlintyJoe | 207892 | ||
Among those who hold that fate rules their future are many who believe in God. They feel that God must foreknow all future events. And, based on that assumption, they reason that all future events are predetermined, for what God foreknows cannot fail to take place. Some extend this idea to belief in divine predestination, which means that God has foreordained certain ones of the human race for salvation and the rest for eternal punishment. Has God actually foreknown all things that have taken place throughout history? Does he now definitely know everything that his creatures will do in days to come? Does such a fate rule your future? The Bible makes it plain that many things that happen to people are bona fide accidents, for “time and chance happen to them all.” (Eccl. 9:11) Then, too, God extends to his intelligent creatures the privilege and responsibility of free choice. Ancient Israel was admonished to “choose life” by listening to the LORD God. The prophet Zephaniah urged meek ones to “seek the LORD.” (Deut. 30:19, 20; Zeph. 2:3) God’s Word, at Revelation 22:17, extends the invitation to “anyone that wishes” to take advantage of God’s provisions for salvation. The inspired Scriptures portray God as a merciful, righteous, impartial and loving God. (Deut. 4:31; 32:4; Acts 10:34; 1 John 4:8) Would such a one encourage people to choose what is right if he already knew that fate prevented many from doing that? |
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2 | What was very good? | Gen 1:31 | FlintyJoe | 207866 | ||
What exactly did God see and declare that was very good? Was it just what he had created, what he purposed, what he saw 1,000 to 5,000 years down the road happening on the earth, all of the above . . .? Could have been the last choice, being as Satan's contol of the earth has lead to such wanton violence, misery and death? | ||||||
3 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207814 | ||
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4 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207576 | ||
You say "The Bible uses the words soul and spirit interchangeably." Maybe your translation, but the NIV has at least this verse correct: "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." (Heb 4:12) Why am I not surprised that you aren't familiar with it? |
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5 | Why is death God's enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207573 | ||
Did you give yourself the nickname "Doc" after receiving a degree in theology? "Theodicy is pretty heady stuff." You're probably correct if you mean most won't have a clue what they're reading. After all, Paul taught that unless you were a lawyer like him, you could not be one of the elect. "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children." | ||||||
6 | Why is death God's enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207572 | ||
Keep putting up a fine fight for the faith. May God help you defend the truth, but it may mean we have to terminate discussions at some point. | ||||||
7 | Why is death God's enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207571 | ||
That's why I use the word "purpose" because God's will has not changed. You say God wanted Adam to sin (that is the crux of your doctrine). For what purpose? To pretend to show how much he loves us? We're robots anyway - doing his bidding, for evil or good - predestined individually as to whether he will loving torture us forever or allow us to watch those being tortured with Him on big couches in the sky! And by the way, and am a heterosexual, married with two children. |
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8 | Why is death God's enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207570 | ||
I think God was more sure that Adam (a perfect human) would do what was right than he was with Job (an imperfect man). God made every provision for Adam to be able to live forever and he fully expected that he would. If he created Adam knowing what his creature would do, then he either created something that he could no longer control or the results of sin are God's will. A philosopher can write a library of books to try and convince a lover of God otherwise, but if he is truly such, he won't even read them, (Eccl 12:12-14)but will stick to God's own record. | ||||||
9 | Why is death God's enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207568 | ||
Like all of God's qualities, they are in perfect balance. He doesn't use his power like a bull in a China shop. He's not so merciful that he will exempt the wicked from punishment. How would you like it if your best friend had the most incredible singing voice in the world, so he never talked. As you tried to converse with him, he would be singing his thoughts to you, whether having a serious conversation or not. It would certainly detract from the overall person. So too, if God's chooses to know everything. And how insincere his own expressions through the prophets that he sent to turn nations and individuals around so as to avoid his wrath and instead experience his abundant goodness. You've heard this reasoning before, but as I've told others, some insist on clinging to one or two verses that seem so clear to them, but which can't mean what it appears, or God would be unrighteous. Never may that be so! | ||||||
10 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207567 | ||
I'm going to use a 2-letter word that a lot of people don't like, but since Jesus said it, here goes: "I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death." No it's not "my" or "he". Allow me to digress. I was raised in a nominal Christian religion that taught that under no circumstance could a Christian get a divorce. (Of course, divorce is as prevalent in this sect as in the population in general.) But then I actually began reading the Bible and I learned that God has allowed for divorce, if one of the mates is unfaithful. Why did God agree to this one exception? Because he knows how it feels (the agony, betrayal and reproach that comes upon the innocent party) for someone you love to be so disloyal. How merciful the true God! But the Pharisaical leaders of this cult, that even forbid some to marry and command that its members not eat certain foods, (1 Tim 4:1-4)do not reflect his qualities. They can't - that would require the Holy Spirit. But I fear that too many would turn God into someone who has somehow changed his standards - "Yes, he put thousands of people to death in the OT, but he's chilled out since then - since he watched his precious first-born die an excruciating death while ungrateful nominal Jews looked on and mocked." How much moreso will God judge those today who would "deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth." (Heb 10:26) He'll lop me off just like he did those unfaithful Jews if I would treat the sacrifice of his Son so disrespectfully. A lot of pre-trib talkers will be saying during the tribulation: "I guess the rapture takes place during the tribulation after all." Then, in their desperation (as they were not prepared to endure to the end) they will go looking for their ministers that fed them this line (no, he wasn't raptured either) in order to get an explanation or give him pummeling. Do you get my drift? Don't reduce God's Holy Word to a few verses taken out of their context, in a way that does not harmonize with the entire book and with all of God's beautiful qualities. "These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come." (1 Cor 10:11) |
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11 | Do you keep salvation? | John 10:28 | FlintyJoe | 207527 | ||
Once Jesus gives someone everlasting life in heaven, no one will be able to take it away from them. When will this occur? It happens after death, when one will “put on” immortality. 1 Cor 15:54-57 states: When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. If a Christian fails to continue following Christ after his dedication and baptism, by serving the God Jesus faithfully served until his death, he will have no one to blame but himself. Christ will not abandon us, but we may abandon him and his Father. God made a covenant with the nation of Israel, but they broke it and their nation was cast off. God has not changed so that “he deals with us differently than he did back in the Old Testament.” “I the LORD do not change.” (Mal 3:6; see also James 1:17) “To the congregation of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in union with Christ Jesus, called to be holy ones” the apostle Paul wrote: “Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived. Consequently let him that thinks he is standing beware that he does not fall.” (1 Cor 1:2; 10:11-12) “He who stands firm to the end will be saved.” (Matt 24:13) This text does “apply to today.” That principle has always applied. |
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12 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207526 | ||
The latter - if not explicity taught, certainly implicitly. | ||||||
13 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207518 | ||
Adam had to know what death was in order for God's warning at Gen 2:17 to be in harmony with perfect justice. A loving father would not tell a son he will flog him if he disobeys if the child does not know a flog from a frog. Second, while I'm sure Mr. Henry was a devout Bible student, if his supposition is based on Jesus being "the Lamb from the foundation (or creation, NIV) of the world," he has misread Rev 13:8. It is "those whose names are not written in the Lamb's book" that are from the foundation . . . (See Rev 17:8 for support.) You sound sympathetic to Adam, but if he's in heaven, then the rest of us can stop worrying. Talk about a serial killer - through this man death spread to all men, thus we all die! Adam is dead, he did not get the free gift of everlasting life. Satan lied and the God of truth, who cannot lie, carrying out his sentence after the "foundation of the world" - Adam and Eve produced human seeds. |
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14 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207514 | ||
Sorry. I sometimes lose my way through the maze of comments. | ||||||
15 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207513 | ||
You're not bursting my bubble, but I doubt most believe they won't receive everlasting life until after the 1,000 year reign and Satan and the demons have been released to tempt perfected humans again. They think - you die, your judged, you live on a cloud. After all, have you ever went to a funeral where the minister said "Joe is now burning in hell, you can stop praying for him." No. No matter how bad the person, now that he's dead, he's in heaven with Jesus. | ||||||
16 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207483 | ||
Peter taught Christians to set apart Christ in their hearts as Lord, and to always be prepared to give an answer, with gentleness and respect, to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." Pleeeease give me an answer. Does the Bible teach anywhere that the soul dies, the God has soul, that animals are souls, that a soul can be delivered from "hell", or that soul is not the same as spirit? You already sound a little less than gentle and slightly disrespectful with the Campbell slam, but I'll freely forgive you. I look forward to your reply. P.S. I can provide examples for clarification. |
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17 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207481 | ||
I love Glen Campbell and was about to confess to at least sympathizing with Cambellites until I googled this - reason #12 why you should hate Campellites - "they everywhere have a contemptible grin that nobody else in the world has. That which is characteristic of them everywhere can't be a happen so. Just dispute the Campbellite doctrine at any point, or preach heartfelt salvation in their presence, and at once they begin to grin. Nobody on earth has that grin except the Campbellites. I began to notice it many years ago in Kentucky. I wondered if it was not just a local matter produced by ill-breeding. But I went to Tennessee and found the same grin. Then I went to Missouri and they also had the grin. Then I moved to Arkansas, and they still grinned. Then I went to Texas and Oklahoma, and the grin abides. There is something in the Campbellite doctrine that produces it. You can dispute with Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Mormons and infidels, and you will never see that grin. But even the boys and girls among the Campbellites have it. The grin shows a mingled feeling of contempt, insolence, ill-breeding, ignorance and wickedness, a combination to be found in no one else but the Campbellites." |
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18 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207479 | ||
Raised a Catholic, I know this denomination puts Adam in heaven today. Within the last month or so during my evangelizing locally, I met a Muslim that informed me of Islam's teaching that Adam is in heaven; and I met a Baptist that stated the same. The latter did not explain if he spoke for his sect, but at least he offered an explanation (although it was supported by speculation on circumstantial evidence - i.e. Since his sons offered sacrifices, it proved Adam repented and taught his kids to worship God). Where do you place Adam? | ||||||
19 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207458 | ||
Has anyone done any serious "soul"-searching on the original hebrew and greek words? For example, Gen 1:20-And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly and swarm with living creatures(Hebrew nephesh, soul). The New American Bible states in its dictionary: "In its first sense, the Hebrew word nephesh signifies breath, life, the principle of animal life. It was only much later (toward the beginning of the Christians era) that the Hebrews adopted the distinction (of Greek philosophy) of soul and body." Paul states the superiority of the Jews - they "have been given the very words of God." (Rom 3:2) So, when did Christians begin relying on the Greek philosophers for truth? Jewish philosophers had contended with Paul on many occasions, but he warned that "after I leave, wild wolves will come in among you. They won't spare any of the sheep." (Acts 20:29) Was Satan the first to claim the “soul” is immortal when he told Eve that she wouldn't die if she disobeyed God? Some claim he didn't, but she and Adam received everlasting life for their sin. | ||||||
20 | Pure joy in Heaven? | Rev 21:4 | FlintyJoe | 207431 | ||
Verse 3 states: "Now God makes his home with people. He will live with them." Many mistakenly read this as if it states that man makes his home with God and now live with him. This prophecy is the completion of God's purpose for the earth. Verse 2 pictures 'the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.' In this way, thru Christ and his bride, it will be "as if" God is making his home with us. "In that way, God will be all in all." (1 Cor 15:28) | ||||||
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